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"this is a valuable introduction...in the arguments it addresses and the calibre of the authors selected for the readings"Science and Christian Belief, Vol 21 No 1--,
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This reader brings together carefully selected material from a wide range of authors on the relationships between science, religion, and theology. It samples the recent literature on the challenges to religion posed by both modern physics and evolutionary biology, as well as exploring the relationship between scientific and theological approaches. Topics include models of interaction between science and religion, historical reflections on the 'conflict thesis', scientific and theological methods, creation and modern cosmology, uncertainty and chaos, creationism and evolutionary theory, the anthropic principle and design, and the challenge of reductionism.
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Science and Religion is becoming a subject that people are aware of - no longer the automatic assumption that the two are in conflict that was common up until 20 yrs ago or so. This great change in understanding has been largely fueled by a fairly small number of authors, and this text gives short introductions to many of them. On the asumption that few people are going to read the primary sources, books like this are invaluable, not least for those who teach courses on the subject. And yes, there are now many courses at university level on science and religion - for which a text like this is invualuable. Its not limited to the intellectual high flyers though, it would form a useful study book for a church discussion group.
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Problems in Theology 4: Science and Religion, edited by Jeff Astley, David Brown and Ann Loades, T & T Clark, 2004, 134 ff.
Readings in the science and religion debate
By Howard A. Jones
The editors of this volume are all Professors of Divinity at the University of Durham, England. They are therefore in an authoritative position to select, under 16 headings, extracts from various textbooks relating to this topic written by experts respectively presenting their own views. The selection of material is very even-handed, with the views of passionate Christian writers like Thomas Torrance and Alister McGrath, through scientifically trained theologians like John Polkinghorne, to apologists for intelligent design like Michael Behe, to scientists like Stephen Jay Gould (biology) and Paul Davies (physics).
Any theology student, or any layman interested in the science and religion debate, will find this a highly readable, fascinating and useful monograph. It gives readers the opportunity to become familiar with the views of writers in the field, some of whose names may not be familiar to them, so that they can follow up with a reading of the whole text from which these extracts were taken. There is a quite expansive bibliography of further readings relevant to the Introduction and the four main chapter headings - Conflict or complement, God and modern physics, Creation through evolution and A designer world. There are also indexes of subjects and authors for easy reference. Thoroughly recommended!
Dr Howard A. Jones is the author of The Thoughtful Guide to God (2006) and The Tao of Holism (2008), both published by O Books of Winchester, UK.
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Readings in the science and religion debate
By Howard A. Jones
The editors of this volume are all Professors of Divinity at the University of Durham, England. They are therefore in an authoritative position to select, under 16 headings, extracts from various textbooks relating to this topic written by experts respectively presenting their own views. The selection of material is very even-handed, with the views of passionate Christian writers like Thomas Torrance and Alister McGrath, through scientifically trained theologians like John Polkinghorne, to apologists for intelligent design like Michael Behe, to scientists like Stephen Jay Gould (biology) and Paul Davies (physics).
Any theology student, or any layman interested in the science and religion debate, will find this a highly readable, fascinating and useful monograph. It gives readers the opportunity to become familiar with the views of writers in the field, some of whose names may not be familiar to them, so that they can follow up with a reading of the whole text from which these extracts were taken. There is a quite expansive bibliography of further readings relevant to the Introduction and the four main chapter headings - Conflict or complement, God and modern physics, Creation through evolution and A designer world. There are also indexes of subjects and authors for easy reference. Thoroughly recommended!
Dr Howard A. Jones is the author of The Thoughtful Guide to God (2006) and The Tao of Holism (2008), both published by O Books of Winchester, UK.
Science and Theology since Copernicus
Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship
Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion (Glasgow Gifford Lectures)
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